DI training mode?

[Rusty]

I don't want to join every game I'm interested in's Discord to find out for myself, I already have too many servers... Does anyone know if there's an interest on Discord for a way to train DI? As a traditional fighting game player, I feel it's easily my biggest weakness (and I have a few, olol)

[Songbird]

I don't think there's much discussion of it in that sense. People will ask if you can escape some combo or not, but it's mostly pretty clear when you screw up survival DI, since you go straight up or sideways and die.

This is probably the sort thing that Training Mode would be more useful for than its own separate mode, because proper DI changes for every single move, by character weight, fall speed, and percent, and there isn't always an objectively correct input (i.e. it can be reacted to either way, or it's a 50/50 situation). So a minigame where you can practice situations and get them "right" or "wrong" would probably be exclusively limited to survival DI, or maybe very specific strings like Kragg repeatedly throwing rock, or Wrastor fair chains.

There will definitely be DI instructions (both combo DI and survival DI) when they finally do the other defensive tutorials, since there were in Rivals 1 (in fact, you could go back and play the ones in Rivals 1 if you wanted, when the game is on sale few a few dollars maybe). And there are planned improvements to training mode to have the AI repeat a series of inputs you record. For anything else, you're probably best off posting on the Nolt board (https://rivals2.com/nolt) with a specific idea of what you'd like to see.

[StuckInWashingMachine]

That's such a good idea, DI is so weird in this, for some moves, you can't even buffer it, so you have to react and building that muscle memory would be so good